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112 { THE SOMM JOURNAL } OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 112 { THE SOMM JOURNAL } OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 { seattle somm summit } TRI-COASTAL Meiomi 2016 Rosé, California Meoimi is tri-country and tri-coastal, with vineyards in Sonoma, Monterey and Santa Barbara counties," says Melissa Stackhouse, Director of Winemaking for Meiomi. "The region along the ocean relies on the inuence of fo and the ipact of coastal aritie factors. When you are starting your day at 50 degrees with cold fo and then you war up to 0 derees, you benefit not only fro the ripenin warth, but that cold teperature allows the fruit to respire less acidity, so you have that bright, 'salivacious' quality to these wines that are grown along the coast." With Meomi's inaugural vintage of their rosé in front of us, "salivacious" is exactly the word that comes to mind. "Our intent with the Meomi rosé was to create a wine that was very red fruit–driven, strawberry watermelon, with a nice high amount of acidity and a teture that sor t of becons you in," eplains Stackhouse as we taste. "It's also a little restrained and coy, but with good balance." ITALIAN COASTAL Banfi 2015 La Pettegola Vermentino, Toscana, Italy "Vermentino is the quintessential coastal varietal," begins Banfi intners Trade eelopent irector ars eicht. "When we think about classic Italian white wines, we think of cooler climate, high acid wines with good min - erality and freshness. Vermentino is unique in that it is a central-southern Italian white wine that still has good minerality, acidity and freshness, because Vermentino doesn't resent the warmer season or the sunlight." Prior to the 1930s, there wasn't a long history of wines coming from the Tuscan coast's Maremma region. "Mussolini got the trains to run on time and he drained the swapy, arshy area reion in Tuscany," eiht remarks. This region within Tuscany is known today for its beaches and coastal wines. "These ineyards, about acres in total, are fie iles inland. The cortina alta trainin ethod eeps the rapes hih aboe the round, and theyre rooted in silty, sandy and calcareous soil," eiht continues. "The wines produced here hae wonderful salinity and brihtness." Lars Leicht, Trade Development Director for Banfi Vintners. Melissa Stackhouse, Director of Winemaking for Meiomi.